Professor Gu Zheng was born in Shanghai in 1959 and is currently a faculty member of Fudan University at the School of Journalism, the researcher at the Center for Information and Communication Studies, and the deputy director at the Visual Culture Research Center. In 1998, he graduated from the Department of Human Culture Studies at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan with a Ph.D diploma. He is also the Harvard Yanjing visiting scholar in 2017-18. Prof. Gu mainly focuses on the 20th century modern art, contemporary Chinese documentary photography, visual culture and image communication research, and photography history.